Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-11-19
HAYMARKET RIOT.
Story of the Tragic Affair From Its
Inception to It's Close:
"Ruhe," the Cabalistic sighal of the An.
archists for Social RevOiution-Uttcr.
ances of the Leaders IDcited Their P,I-
lowers to Action.

| CHICAGO, Nov. ll.-IIow tho gigantic, peace
iui strikes were turned into riots, how the en-
tire world was startled by the bood-curdlinp
bomb massacre In the Haymarket, then the ma.
lesuc State trial, the amazing bravado of the
one American defendant, the horrible grutesdue
marriage OF another one Of the ptisoners-every
| uetDll OF these strange occurrences and the eE-
traorulnary train succeeding, now presents itself
aPalh as II the whole had passed but yesterday
| The Keynote OF it all is found in the platform
| OF the mysterious L. A. A, International Arbelt.
| er working men's) Assocation-of which or
gahlnauon August Spies and his seven co de.
lendants were Lending members nnd upholders.
| In the International platform II urged THAT
| the present system under which property ia
owned by individuals should be DESTROYED. and
that all capital which has been produced by
labor should be transformed into common prop
| erty Dy iorce Eighty groups Of this dan.
geTous association existed in the United States,
| chleily at the great industrial centers Chicago
alone being the ill-starred possessor OF seven.
| Only portion OF the members were armed,
yet the number of this class in Chicago
exceeded 3,c0) every man of whom attended
regular military drills, had his own rife and re-
| volyer, ard could obtain dynamite and bombs
| for the asking. The unarmed members Of the
| groups were constantly in contact with their
armed brethren and in hearty sympathy with
| Their purposes and their principles. II was this
| dNmpatt well disciplined |. A. A. that had for
| us organs three now noted newspapers-the
| AIdef.r Zetaag the Aiarm and the Aaarchist
| Excepting handsome, youthful Louis Lngg,
who though taking a conspicuous part, was
mere acting agent each Of the eight Iaymarket
defendants was directly connected with one of
| these papers.
| August Spies keen cynical Hessian, with
| the subtle intellectual vgor Of an IagO, was
| editornchief Of the AibeHtr. The jaunty,
daredevil little Texan, Albert r. Parsons,
| presided over the Aiatm At the head of
| the iHdrchia George Engcl another Hes.
| sian, but of coarse, brutal type, out
| Heroded the most bood-thrsty utterances
| of his compeers. While Sam Flelden, the
| EngshmUn sullen looking, shaggy and forbid
| ding, hut as an agtator simply volcanic, and
| Oscar Nccbc, the attractive, polished German
| American organizer, were more especially CON
| cerned in the other than the journalistic
| branches Of the propaganda, they were, never
| thelesS, among the directors respectively Of the
| Aiarm and the Arjeiter ZsitNHg The gaunt Ba-
yarian, Mlchael SchWab, was Spies assistant
| editor, and his fellow countryman. Adolph
Fischer, he Of the poisoned dagger, was the
ArJeiH'S head foreman.
During the long months preceding the bomb
throwing the defendants one and all we're in
| cessantly active in agtating and organizing in
demonstrations" and experiments Their
speeches and articles fairly brstcd with impas-
stoned appeals for the laboring people TO pro.
vide themselves with firearms and dynamite.
Specific instructions were given how to handle
and use the explosive, and how to make bombs
aud how to procure weapons. All this was
,al p.,t. ha rpnHgr
for the coming social revolution what was
Vaguely inferred nor was the time when it was
TO be inauguratod dim uncertainty OF the fu-
ture The revolution" was frequently defined
in speech and writing as sudden. bloody, forcl-
bic uphcayal of the right of private ownership
of property, then the bringing about OF state
of society in which all property should be held
in common.
Incredible as it may seem, the avowed pur-
! pose was TO delugc the city in blood OF the
property owning classes, first destroying the
| police and militia, who were deridcd as their
| special champions. The period OF confusion de-
vclopng from the mammoth strikes OF the lst OF
| May, 1886 was definitely announced months be
| fore as the time when the fearful bolt should
fall. Pi,csS as was this programme and difi
cult as u belief is that ii ever was contemplated
| by men the facts as stated were abundanty
| " oven in court.
| The dabOlism was fully shared In by
| women. Just one day before the time set Tor
| the strikes Louis Lingg the hombmnker, slip
| ped into his lodgings heavy suspiclons'look-
| mo box. three feet in length. The box contain
| ed n large invoice of dynamite. Its delivery at
| I.inggs lodgings was the first immediate prep
aration for the bloody result Of live days later
| Tor many weeks previous Lingg
! had been purchasing and experimenting
| with dynamite as the paid agent of one of the
seven International groups but subsequent
| events showed beyond any reasonable doubt
| that this particular explosive made the bonn
| that was heard round the world. The bomb, with
! nifty Others was manufactured by Lingg unoer
| the auspices of the International Association
which furnished the money and OF which the
| celebrated defendants were not members sim
| ply but leaders.
! Next day. May /, the eight hour strikes began
in earnest. and by nichtfal when the first intel
| ngent estimates were obtainabe, 3ouh mch
! walked the streets idle. Promptly IN the morn
| ing Sunday, when the churches throughout the
| city were resoundng with swelling hosannas'
| the stuGy little Bohemian Hall on Emma
| street was crowded with members OF
| the Lehr and Wehr Ncrcin' an
| inner circle of the omnprcsent International
| Detailed plans for the ncarathand conflict with
| the police were submitted by Editor Engel and
listened to by Spies lieutenant, Fischer. These
| plaus were the ones followed almost TO the let
| Ter at the Haylnarict. but the decision to do so
| WAS not reached at this meeting. Instead II
| was determined TO take action at anoihcr gain
| cring Of the Lehr and Weir in a larger hall ana
! more central location TO ee assembled wlthih
| tw,nty-four hours This was 10 be In Greif $
| Hall Monday night, May y.